Abstract The Japanese Clinical Practice Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic
Shock 2020 (J-SSCG 2020), a Japanese-specific set of clinical practice guidelines for sepsis …

Objectives A systematic appraisal of the literature to determine if audiovisual feedback
devices can improve CPR quality delivered by health care practitioners (HCPs) and/or …

Many injury severity scoring tools have been developed over the past few decades. These
tools include the Injury Severity Score (ISS), New ISS (NISS), Trauma and Injury Severity …

Aim To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine whether
cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) quality, as indicated by parameters such as chest …

Aim To examine whether early warning scores (EWS) can accurately predict critical illness in
the prehospital setting and affect patient outcomes. Methods We searched bibliographic …

Introduction Arterial carbon dioxide tension (PaCO 2) abnormalities are common after
cardiac arrest (CA). Maintaining a normal PaCO 2 makes physiological sense and is …

Introduction Studies have linked air pollution with the incidence of acute coronary artery
events and cardiovascular mortality but the association with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest …

Background: Outcomes of patients who are discharged at the scene by paramedics are not
fully understood. Objective: We aimed to describe the risk of re-presentation and/or death in …

Aim This study aims to describe and compare traumatic and medical out-of-hospital cardiac
arrest (OHCA) occurring in Perth, Western Australia, between 1997 and 2014. Methods The …

Objective To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to examine the impact of new
prehospital practitioners (NPPs), including emergency care practitioners (EmCPs) …